Senior Software Development Engineer

The role

The Senior Software Development Engineer will design, architect, build, and lead the delivery of enterprise applications and shared platform capabilities. This role focuses on developing next-generation AI-enabled applications and agentic workflows to support attorneys and business professionals.

What you will do

• Designing, developing, and maintaining enterprise-grade applications, APIs, services, and shared platform capabilities.
• Developing AI-enabled solutions that integrate large language models and intelligent agent frameworks into workflows.
• Leading technical architecture and end-to-end delivery from prototyping to production.
• Defining technical strategies and architecture patterns for scalability, security, and performance.
• Translating complex legal and business workflows into scalable technical solutions.
• Automating manual and email-driven processes through data-integrated workflows.
• Designing and building agentic workflows that plan, invoke tools, and execute multi-step processes.
• Developing tools and Model Context Protocol interfaces to connect AI agents with firm systems.
• Building and maintaining data pipelines for retrieval, evaluation, and machine learning.
• Mentoring engineers through code reviews, technical coaching, and design guidance.

Required qualifications

• Experience developing applications within Microsoft Azure environments.
• Hands-on experience with agent frameworks, orchestration tooling, Model Context Protocol, and evaluation frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with a second major cloud platform such as AWS.
• Experience with data engineering, machine learning, MLOps, natural language processing, or document-understanding technologies.
• Experience delivering technology in regulated or audited environments.
• Extensive experience designing and developing web applications, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Demonstrated experience designing scalable enterprise architectures and leading technical delivery.
• Experience translating ambiguous business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Experience building production software using large language models.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, object-oriented design, distributed systems, application performance, and reliability.
• Experience with source control, Git workflows, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, influence technical direction, and establish engineering standards.

Nice to have

• Relevant Microsoft Azure, software development, or cloud certifications

Benefits

• health care
• retirement benefits
• paid days off, including sick time, and vacation time
• parental leave
• basic life insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• discretionary, performance-based bonuses

About the company

Gibson Dunn is a leading global law firm, advising clients on significant transactions and disputes.